Abstract
An appropriate pH value of liquid fertilizer can enable crops to better absorb nutrients from fertilizers. However, the mixed liquid fertilizer with high concentration of liquid fertilizer and irrigation water has a high pH value, which affects the absorption of nutrients by crops. Therefore, the precise regulation of liquid fertilizer pH value is an important link to realize the integration of water and fertilizer in modern agriculture. Due to pipeline transportation and diffusion of the regulating liquid and liquid fertilizer, the pH value control system has the characteristics of time-varying, non-linear and time-delayed models, and it is difficult for ordinary controllers to accurately control the pH value of liquid fertilizer. Therefore, modern agriculture urgently needs a controller that can adapt to non-linear and uncertain systems. According to the characteristics of the pH regulation process of liquid fertilizer, this study proposes and designs a modified fuzzy-PID-Smith predictive compensation algorithm, which adds the fuzzy-PID algorithm to the predictor of the conventional Smith algorithm to compensate for the error between the actual and theoretical models in order to reduce the decline of control quality caused by the model mismatch to the control system. To verify the practicability and robustness of the algorithm in practical applications, a liquid fertilizer pH value control system with STM32F103ZET6 as the control core was developed. The pH control system with fuzzy-PID and Smith algorithm as controller was used as the control group. The model was simulated and tested under two conditions of exact matching and imprecise matching, and performance tests were carried out under different output flow rates. The results showed that the maximum overshoot of the modified fuzzy-PID-Smith predictive compensation algorithm was significantly less than that of the other two algorithms at different output flow rates, with an average of 0.23%. The average steady-state time of adjusting the pH value of liquid fertilizer from 7.3 to 6.8 was 72 s, which was superior to the 145 s and 3.2% of fuzzy-PID and 130 s and 1.4% of the Smith controller.
Highlights
According to the nutrient demand of crop growth, this technology accurately regulates the pH value and EC value of water and fertilizer and gives the optimal pH value of water and fertilizer for crop growth, which is conducive to the absorption of liquid fertilizer nutrients by crop roots and the promotion of crop growth [1]
The results further showed that the FP-Smith predictor compensator can effectively solve the time-variation, time-delay and non-linearity of the pH control model of liquid fertilizer
The input of the fuzzy algorithm in the control system of the pH value of liquid fertilizer based on fuzzy-PID is the deviation and the deviation change rate between the set pH value and the actual value [29], in which the deviation is e and the deviation rate of change is ec
Summary
With the advancement of agricultural mechanization and modernization, the integration of water and fertilizer technology has rapidly developed. The integration of water and fertilizer is a new agricultural technology that integrates agricultural irrigation and fertilization control. According to the nutrient demand of crop growth, this technology accurately regulates the pH value and EC value of water and fertilizer and gives the optimal pH value of water and fertilizer for crop growth, which is conducive to the absorption of liquid fertilizer nutrients by crop roots and the promotion of crop growth [1]. After adjusting the pH value, water and fertilizer can effectively improve the soil quality and reduce the pollution of fertilizer in the environment [2]
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